Senior Social Content Creative

Sportsbet; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days leave

Hybrid work policy

Home office allowance

Parental leave support

Hack Days

Career development

Concierge service

Free breakfast & fruit

End of trip facilities

Health insurance discount

Job summary

Sportsbet in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Social Creative to shape content that keeps the brand at the centre of sport and internet culture. You’ll take ideas from spark to screen, scripting and producing across formats to drive attention and engagement.

You’ll lead the creative process, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and push for high-quality, innovative work that resonates with fans and followers. This role supports a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of experience in creating social-first content for brands or media.
• Exceptional creative thinking, writing, scripting and storytelling skills.
• Strong hands-on production capability across filming, editing, and formats.

Responsibilities

• Create and deliver engaging social-first content across video, audio, static, meme and emerging formats that captures attention and drives performance.
• Spot opportunities across live sport, breaking news, trending moments and internet culture, turning them into compelling content at speed.
• Lead the creative process from concept and scripting through to production, editing and final delivery.
• Collaborate with creatives, producers, designers, marketers, influencers and talent to bring integrated campaigns and content to life.
• Contribute to a high-performing creative culture through idea sharing and constructive feedback.

Skills

Experience 5-7 yrs

Creative thinking

Production skills

Social platforms

AI tools

Job description

At Sportsbet, we’re united behind our purpose to Bring Excitement to Life for over 2.4 million customers. We do this by delivering fun, challenging the status quo, and living our values. As part of the global Flutter Group, we’re a major player internationally, but in Melbourne, Sydney and Darwin, we’re a tightknit team of 1,300+ teammates (with over half in Tech & Data Science).

Our commitment to responsible gambling is genuine and demonstrated through the wide range of responsible gambling initiatives and tools. We’re proud to be the leaders in responsible gambling in our industry, not just locally, but globally.

We are one of the top workplaces for Women through WORK180. WORK180 is a leading platform that independently assesses employers on policies, benefits and practices that support women and underrepresented groups at work. We remain committed to making Sportsbet the best place to work and encourage you to explore our employer profile on the WORK180 website to learn more about what we offer.

About The Role

As our Senior Social Creative, you’ll help shape the content that keeps Sportsbet at the centre of sport, entertainment and internet culture. Reporting to the Social Content Creative Director, you’ll take ideas from spark to screen, creating social-first content that earns attention, starts conversations and keeps fans coming back for more.

From live sporting moments to always-on content, you’ll develop, script and produce standout creative across a range of formats. You’ll bring a strong creative point of view, champion big ideas and help raise the bar across the team, ensuring Sportsbet continues to lead the pack as Australia’s most entertaining sports brand.

Responsibilities Include:

• Create and deliver engaging social-first content across video, audio, static, meme and emerging formats that captures attention and drives performance.
• Spot opportunities across live sport, breaking news, trending moments and internet culture, turning them into compelling content at speed.
• Lead the creative process from concept and scripting through to production, editing and final delivery.
• Collaborate with creatives, producers, designers, marketers, influencers and talent to bring integrated campaigns and content to life.
• Contribute to a high-performing creative culture through idea sharing, constructive feedback and a relentless focus on quality.

About You

While we are big on development and offer on the job training, we want to set you up for success. Along with a great attitude, it would be ideal that you have:

• 5-7+ years experience creating social-first content for brands, publishers, sport, entertainment or media businesses
• Exceptional creative thinking, writing, scripting and storytelling skills, with the ability to develop ideas that cut through.
• Strong hands‑on production capability, including filming, editing and content creation across multiple formats.
• Deep expertise across social platforms including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and X, with a strong understanding of what drives performance.
• Experience leveraging AI and emerging creative tools to produce engaging, reactive and culturally relevant content.

You’re essentially obsessed with creating content people genuinely want to watch, share and talk about and know how to balance speed, quality and creativity.

The Perks

We work hard and play hard, so along with a competitive salary and generous performance‑based bonus for permanent staff members, here’s some of our other perks:

• 25 days annual leave (that’s right, an additional week’s leave!)
• Hybrid working policy (Monday and Friday from home) and a $1,050 home office allowance for new starters.
• Industry leading Parental Leave support program with 26 weeks paid leave for Primary Carers and no wait time. We also have a progressive return to work benefit for your first 6 months back: come back for 3 days, get paid for 4; come back for 4 days, get paid for 5.
• Hack Days - where your creativity and collaborative ideas lead to exciting new ideas and projects for our customers.
• Access to outstanding career development programs, including expert‑led internal training and external learning opportunities (staff allowance for personal development)
• Weekly concierge service including free massages and nail appointments – all onsite in our Melbourne office!
• Free breakfast, daily fresh fruit and weekly rotating socials, from Thursday office drinks to fun team events
• End of trip facilities with onsite table tennis and pool tables
• Discounted health insurance and free flu jabs yearly.

We review applications within the first two weeks, so

Our Focus on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

We don’t just support diversity – we celebrate it! This is a workplace where you can thrive and feel safe to bring your whole authentic self to work.

We’rean inclusive employer who welcomes you for who you are, as you are – so, if you require adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know in your application. We also know flex means different things to different people, so let us know how we can support you to be your best.

If you think you’d be a great fit but don’t necessarily meet everything in the job description, please still get in touch.

Ready to bring excitement to life?